A discursive mind restricts a child’s capacity to concentrate, to attend, and to be fully engaged … Abstracted from an article by Dr. Patricia Jennings, Director of the Contemplation and Education Program at Garrison Institute. What is the prospect of our educators using contemplative and mindfulness-based approaches to teaching? In using these approaches can our […]

Why should we try to come to know ourselves and ultimately even to become awakened to what is happening here and now in ourselves- consciously aware of who we are and how we have become what we are? May self-reflection & self-awareness light your day.

Here is a somewhat radical shift in perspective to look at the very foundation of our basic skills-oriented education in the school systems. Dr. Daniel Siegel, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, co-director of the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center, and executive director of the Mindsight Institute, proposes a moving […]

In our process, we arrive at some point to the knowledge that a certain cause we have set in motion in order to achieve a particular effect has set off a whole chain reaction producing effects we did not foresee. May self-reflection & self-awareness light your day.

Early bonding disruptions on the development of the brain and the personality are difficult to correct later on in life. May self-reflection & self-awareness light your day.

How do we care for our children- do we give them full and complete attention emotionally, intellectually, and physically when they feel insecure and afraid? Our level of attention for them shapes their capacity for bonding within and with others. May self-reflection & self-awareness light your day.

For many of us who may be facing overwhelming and unmanageable problems, we try to create situations we actually can control with the help of restrictively limited coping strategies. Subjectively successful does not mean they’re effective. May self-reflection & self-awareness light your day.

We often retreat and inhabit our self-created worlds as they offer a false sense of security- a “place” where self-rationalized, automated coping mechanisms and strategies serve to veil their real inappropriateness. May self-reflection & self-awareness light your day.

How well can we recognize and acknowledge disturbances to our inner balance? Awareness is the first step in the process of this “clear seeing”. May self-reflection & self-awareness light your day.